Privacy, shmivacy.

Can someone plausibly explain the Bending Spoons business model?

Big chunk of debt financing for decrepit brands with old tech. Other than strip-mining user data, I can’t figure it out.

Sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. All over the news.

Way back when, MSFT would set up developer meetups and give everyone who showed up a free Windows phone for development. I still have a couple in a box somewhere. People would take them, but nobody wanted to make apps. Everybody was busy enough with iOS and Android.

MSFT even tried to pay companies to port their popular apps to Windows Phones. A few took the money and did the port, but nobody wanted to support it.

Samsung was also trying to get people to write apps for their watches. Same issue. It’s really hard to break in if you’re entering an already crowded market.

Was in San Francisco last Sunday. Ridiculous number of robotaxis everywhere, most of them empty. Mostly Waymos, but also a few Zoox ones and 3-4 others with a training driver.

I kept trying to get away from them, but there were groups of 2-3 driving around, boxing me in. Mostly clustered around popular tourist spots.

On top of that, San Francisco has now started implementing traffic cameras that will snap your license and automatically send you a speeding ticket if you’re 5 miles over the speed limit. I get that it’s a congestion management thing, but add that to all the robotaxis and I’m not sure many people will be driving in San Francisco.

Come to think of it, that’s actually a good thing. Carry on.

That’s pretty decent range, and having solar panels trickle charge all day means for a lot of people it’s basically at zero fuel cost. That right there is the big selling point.

If they figure out how to lop off a foot or two from the back without destroying aerodynamics and solar charging, it would look and park more like a normal vehicle.

Gullwing doors are fun, but a bigger person might have trouble fitting through that gap.

FWIW, Toyota experimented with a three-wheel, two-seater a while back, but range was nothing like this: https://theautofuture.com/2014/07/12/toyotas-three-wheeled-road-ev/

AI can’t even write decent unit tests. How the hell is it going to properly red-team this service?

The browser is one of the few places users interact with the internet. To train models, you need data and here you are getting a firehose of data including destinations, clicks, messages, everything. You can’t really get that from a browser extension because it’s not always running for every window and tab.

The only stream missing are user interactions via apps. They already offer SDKs for embedding inside apps, but they need to sweeten the deal to encourage adoption. That will come through offering ad embedding services or revenue-sharing with devs.

If they truly wanted to get every interaction, they could offer discount ‘smart’ WiFi routers, and either cut deals with telcos or create MVNOs to have visibility into those data streams as well.

It’s not Man-In-The-Middle if you invite them in. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just tell them to Let Off Some Steam.

Depends on whether knife was originally used for butter, peanut butter, cream cheese, marmite, marmalade, liver pate, or stool sample.

AWS salespeople, meeting customers today.

If this was C:

#define uuID func
#define uuiD return

GraphQL:

Have done it both ways. Will never go back to bare metal. Dependency hell forced multiple clean installs down to bootloader.

The only constant is change.